The University of Illinois has fired an adjunct professor who taught courses on Catholicism after a student accused the instructor of engaging in hate speech by saying he agrees with the church's teaching that homosexual sex is immoral.

The professor, Ken Howell of Champaign, said his firing violates his academic freedom. He also lost his job at an on-campus Catholic center.

Howell, who taught Introduction to Catholicism and Modern Catholic Thought, says he was fired at the end of the spring semester after sending an e-mail explaining some Catholic beliefs to his students preparing for an exam.

"Natural Moral Law says that Morality must be a response to REALITY," he wrote in the e-mail. "In other words, sexual acts are only appropriate for people who are complementary, not the same."

I fully expect that one day a bunch of faggots will beat down my door and kill me, or someone who thinks/speaks/looks like me. ‘Course, I’ll mow down six of them on the way, and so there’s a good side to the story.

Let me see if I understand this. The University of Illinois hired an instructor to teach Catholic doctrine, but when he taught Catholic doctrine, he was fired for teaching Catholic doctrine. The Peter Principle is alive and well.

I’m not quite buying this story. Feels like something is missing here, and certainly the email contents are missing.
This story as printed wouldn’t hold up in court and the prof isn’t raising much of a fuss.

Alumni money speaks volumes.
The alumni need to know about this.
For example, my wallet remains slammed shut to Penn State for several reasons, including its coddling of “global warming” scammer Michael Mann, and its throwing out the red carpet at every turn for the gerbil crowd.

It's clear that this professor was confusing the students. How dare he encourage alternate thoughts on Catholicism! /s

There are four courses with the word Catholic offered this fall in the Religious Studies dept. at UIUC, here are two of them - RLST 227 US Catholic ExperienceStudies the unique and sometimes problematic roles played by U.S. Catholics in the history and contemporary experience of U.S. culture emphasizing the problem of difference and acceptance that has characterized the Catholic Church in the United States.

And the newRLST 447 Modern Catholic Thought Traces the history of Catholicism in its interaction with the modern world from the sixteenth century to the present, concentrating on the uneasy relationships that Catholicism has sustained with the modern world. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours.

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